Blur (XR Experience)
PHI Center (Montreal) / February 18 - March 29, 2026
PHI Center (Montreal) / February 18 - March 29, 2026
"unlike anything I've seen"
Charles Fink (Forbes)
"kaleidoscopic... dizzyingly strange and thrilling"
Luke Buckmaster (The VR Critic)
Scientists have upended our sense of the natural order, shifting terms like “de-extinction” and “resurrection biology” from the realm of Hollywood action films into the vernacular of everyday life. In 1996, scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland ignited a firestorm of controversy when they cloned a female Finn-Dorset sheep using adult somatic cells. Images of the sheep, Dolly, quickly spread around the world, stirring concerns about the seemingly inevitable shift to cloning humans. People were faced with the troubling question of reconsidering their foundational understanding of identity and selfhood. Blur is a poetic exploration of these increasingly liminal boundaries between the past and the future, the living and the dead.
Blur is co-directed by Craig Quintero and Phoebe Greenberg and is an international co-production with Riverbed Theatre, PHI Studio, and Onassis. It has been staged the 2025 Venice Film Festival, Taiwan National Theatre, and National Taichung Theatre.
https://phi.ca/en/studio/works/blur/
Charles Fink (Forbes)
"kaleidoscopic... dizzyingly strange and thrilling"
Luke Buckmaster (The VR Critic)
Scientists have upended our sense of the natural order, shifting terms like “de-extinction” and “resurrection biology” from the realm of Hollywood action films into the vernacular of everyday life. In 1996, scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland ignited a firestorm of controversy when they cloned a female Finn-Dorset sheep using adult somatic cells. Images of the sheep, Dolly, quickly spread around the world, stirring concerns about the seemingly inevitable shift to cloning humans. People were faced with the troubling question of reconsidering their foundational understanding of identity and selfhood. Blur is a poetic exploration of these increasingly liminal boundaries between the past and the future, the living and the dead.
Blur is co-directed by Craig Quintero and Phoebe Greenberg and is an international co-production with Riverbed Theatre, PHI Studio, and Onassis. It has been staged the 2025 Venice Film Festival, Taiwan National Theatre, and National Taichung Theatre.
https://phi.ca/en/studio/works/blur/
The Just for You Trilogy (360VR film)
Luxembourg City Film Festival
Mudam Museum of Modern Art / March 4-5, 2026
Luxembourg City Film Festival
Mudam Museum of Modern Art / March 4-5, 2026
We are comforted by facts, by the familiarity of things we know to be “true.” The sun rises in the east. There are twenty-four hours in a day. I exist. These truisms simplify our lives, enable us to get through the process of living. We are not afraid to leap into the air, because we know we will land on the ground. The Just for You Trilogy explores the possibilities that exist beyond these everyday patterns, that blur the lines between dream and reality.
Combining Riverbed’s three award-winning 360VR films (All That Remains, Over the Rainbow, and A Simple Silence) into a single experience, the Just for You Trilogy immerses the audience in a surreal meditation on memory, death, and desire.
Presented as part of PHI's VR Cinema programming, this trilogy by Craig Quintero also marks the return of a creator PHI previously spotlighted during PHI’s Taiwan showcase in 2022.
In "Just for You," Craig Quintero masterfully brings his theatrical expertise into the immersive medium. The audience can feel the precision of stagecraft in every frame, the emotional depth of the characters, and an unsettling closeness with the protagonists. This trilogy creates a rare and powerful connection between viewer and subject—between what is seen and what is felt.
Combining Riverbed’s three award-winning 360VR films (All That Remains, Over the Rainbow, and A Simple Silence) into a single experience, the Just for You Trilogy immerses the audience in a surreal meditation on memory, death, and desire.
Presented as part of PHI's VR Cinema programming, this trilogy by Craig Quintero also marks the return of a creator PHI previously spotlighted during PHI’s Taiwan showcase in 2022.
In "Just for You," Craig Quintero masterfully brings his theatrical expertise into the immersive medium. The audience can feel the precision of stagecraft in every frame, the emotional depth of the characters, and an unsettling closeness with the protagonists. This trilogy creates a rare and powerful connection between viewer and subject—between what is seen and what is felt.